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From the Editor in Chief's Desk NEWSLETTER YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X Issue 11 1333322 YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X Jan- March 2018 From the Editor in Chief’s desk: By Swami Paranand Tirth EDITOR IN CHIEF: SWAMI PARANAND TIRTH Twilight, a Sketch by Frederic Edwin Church, 1858 Picture courtesy artistnetwork.com From the chief editors desk .. none of the intuitive insight into one’s own essential nature i.e. the self evident shiva . The twilight zone of Shakta and Shambhava Shiva or the ultimate as a vedantist would put it Shambhava is a mind set born of perfect is not a produce of any modification, he isn’t quietude a well controlled movement of senses attained through any effort ,or is not a resultant towards their perception, a calm placid mind of any refinement or rectification nor is the that absorbs all divergence and a clear head or universal self cultured or processed in any distinct discriminatory wisdom are the sine quo manner so not only refraining from all dynamic YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue11 2 pursuit is the key but also a well calculated and knowledge reinforces karmas and makes them conscious withdrawal from the objective more efficacious and fruitious . phenomena is equally essential . Gita tells us “One should withdraw by and by with an The Gita vindicates these as intelligence guided by patience . Having seated the mind in the self disperse all thoughts and “A man desirous of climbing upon the seat of "think nothing". This not thinking any thing or yoga must perform karmas where as the same transcending all expressions is what is referred man when actually gets seated in yoga .i.e. to as shambhav upaya . divine communion must refrain from the divergent action and retain quietude and Without a genuine preceptor sharing his placidity”. spiritual insight with you this process is as tedious as emptying an ocean by removing आ셁셁क्षो: मुनेर्योग ं कमकम ारणमु楍र्यत े water with the tip of kusha blade . This avesh or trance dawns upon an aspirant ,of the most र्योगा셂ढस्र्यतस्र्यैव शम:कारणमु楍र्यत े । high degree of competence ,by the awakening of a preceptor which again is without any verbal This means to say that till you attain the state of communication ,as he i.e. the aspirant is shambhavi continue with karmas and after you completely thoughtless is called shambhava . have actually gained it shun all karmas . There is yet another hard core ilk of thinkers they ShAkta upaya is all about incessant effort and provide the axiom of - it’s better not to soil strenuous exercising of the individual will . This your hands instead of washing it after they are is the most cherished and applauded feat of dirty . If karmas have to be abandoned to human endeavours ,but it is only penultimate identify oneself with one’s essential nature why and the most paradoxical scheme of events is start them in the first place . This lot traces their that there is no bridge connecting the lineage back to the four offsprings of brahma or penultimate and the ultimate ! . Till the god the creator .They were inspired by their realisation of the per se unison with the supreme father to multiply their progeny but they defied self one is obsessed with the notion of this him and sought to attain and retain their realisation as a product of some effect .The essential nature . The three lineages became so Upanishads propound that "the undoing is not complicatedly juxtaposed in the oriental accomplished by doing " undoing in this context pantheon that an individual was not left with anything clear cut to pursue . aims at अकृ त: or emancipation which is per se where as कृ तेन means through karmas or efforts Agamas and Tantra are the instruments of . so there has been a great dispute over relating the munificence of Parameshwara which as it the two means i.e. shambhav and shAkta or were dawned upon humankind to deliver it from unrelating the two . There have been sects this jargon of directionlessness. There which are deeply rooted in the societal schema of Charya ,yoga and Jnan is to reticulum based on either only the former or an graduate an aspirant successively into the cult admixture of the two or exclusively on the latter of self realisation through shambhav upaya and even by rejecting the former in toto . to evolve the novice as competent enough for the ultimate epiphany by training him through There are staunch ritualist who deny even the the means of effort and concentration . consistency of that portion of the Vedas which is not conducive to karmas specially the Vedic Theravada Buddhism also adopted the same rituals .Then there are others who would rather method of the sequence of sheel samadhi and correlate both as conducive to each other . prajna/vipassana. This is to facilitate the Action leads to knowledge and intuitive insight called prajna and vipashyana by an assiduous adherence to the preceding steps YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue11 3 of sheel or conduct and samadhi or meditation . spontaneously ,without repeating his mantra or The Tantra do not expect a guru to induce the meditating on his profile or by not even trance of shambhav straight away . it may worshiping his relics and icons as per the crashland or rapture the subtle core of the scriptural injunctions”. novice . charya for refining the grossser part of the aspirant yoga the subtler one and causal Swamiparanand tirth portion of the aspirant by shambhav upaya is the Founder President and CEO crux of almost all agamas . Needless to say that YTA yoga Tantra and Agama (inc.) cal .USA. every aspirant has his own gradation of Head administrator refinement so one might as well go briefly about Yoga Tantra et agama centre the pre requisites and begin with the shambhav Montreal Quebec Canada . straight away. Utpala one of the most illustrious preceptors of the shaivite doctrine, only salutes such Adepts of real devotion and doesn’t compare himself to them . नध्र्यार्यतोनजपत:स्र्या饍र्यस्र्याववधिपूवकम ं एवमेवशशवाभासस्तंनुम:भक्ततशाशिनम ् “We make obeisance to all such great devotees who are possessed by their own shiva hood YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue11 4 Editorial articles and papers which have been published in previous issues. To begin with we have an interesting and analytical write-up by Niraj Kumar on the significance of ‘lotus’ in Indian and other eastern traditions. The author observes that apart from the simile of lotus used to describe the rising from the samsara & achieving full blooming Enlightenment, it apparently contains the properties of an “Enlightened Being” unto itself and goes on to analyze it in detail. Humanity has always been torn between making ‘Quitessence of the highest Purpose: A efforts and realizing that most of the times the translation, introduction and analysis of Sri result has had nothing to do with the said effort. Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthsara’ is the title of The momentary pleasure or satisfaction one an erudite article by Dr.Jeffrey S. Lidke. In this might derive at completion of a task or a duty is essay, the author has attempted to illuminate too short lived and thus gives rise to a new how the Paramārthasāra, a seminal text by journey towards a new effort, new challenges , Abhinavagupta serves as a guide for the process new ways of testing ones capabilities. of the awakening and internal ascension of kuṇḍalinī-śakti. Many a times an entire life-time may be spent in ‘proving’ oneself to the family society and to This is followed by an enlightening article by oneself. This results in taking pride in such Prof Subhash Kak on ‘Art and Cosmology in achievements and often one may get obsessed India’ . According to him the best way to with it and start identifying oneself with one’s understand India is through its art and the success and position not realizing how trivial it cosmology. He stresses that textbook narratives is to associate ones happiness with it. often overlook the synthesizing principles that Explaining the importance of Shambava upaya represent the grammar of Indian culture, and in the editorial our guru Swami Paranand Tirthji they are much like the accounts of the six blind stresses on the need to converge all ones people who encountering an elephant describe it thoughts and actions and withdraw from excess as wall, spear, snake, tree, rope, and fan, objectivity. For an aspirant who truly wants to respectively. experience the bliss of Shivahood Shambava upaya is the key. Shambhava is a mind set born Next we have Swamiji’s conversations with Dr. of perfect quietude a well controlled movement Sisir Roy on the nature of vibration and of senses towards their perception, a calm placid quantum vaccum, a notion that has been mind that absorbs all divergence and a clear engaging and intriguing modern day scientists. head or distinct discriminatory wisdom are the The questions raised by the latter have been sine quo none of the intuitive insight into one’s succinctly answered by Swamiji citing relevant own essential nature i.e. the self evident shiva. examples wherever necessary. The concepts that quantum physics is dealing with have been With the blessings and divine guidance of contemplated upon by hoary seers and given Swamiji we have been able to publish ten issues due importance in their writings. Some of these of the YTA newsletter and in this eleventh issue notions like Spanda, Maatrisva and Chidakasha we are re-publishing some thought provoking have been discussed in these extremely perceptive and discerning correspondences. YOGTANTRAGAMA ISSN NO: 2454-888X | Issue11 5 Following this we have a nostalgic piece by Ambika Talwar about her pilgrimage to the holy land of Rishikesh in the foothills of mighty Himalayas.
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